Katie H. R. Stuart

Katie Harriet Rebekah Stuart (; November 4, 1862 - May 14, 1925) was a South African evangelist and temperance leader. For many years, she assisted Theophilus Lyndall Schreiner in his temperance, evangelistic, and native work in South Africa. She preached in many churches, being one of the first South African women to take up public and platform work. She was an active member of the Guild of Loyal Women of South Africa (GLW), and its Delegate to England in 1900, where a collection was made of the first £1,500 for the care of the soldiers' graves. She was a keen worker in Good Templary (IOGT), having helped T. L. Schreiner to start many Lodges in South Africa, also in True Templary, of which society, which has about 13,000 members, she held the position of Right Worthy Secretary. Stuart served as President of the Sea Point Branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), and Superintendnt of Native and Coloured Work throughout South Africa. She was also vice-president of the YWCA. Stuart was a member of the South African Temperance Alliance, W.E.L., the People's League, the Naval League, British and Foreign Bible Society, and Clothing Guild.

Early life and education Katie Harriet Rebekah Findlay was born at Fraserburg, Cape Colony, South Africa, on November 4, 1862. Her father, John Findlay, was a merchant, Justice of the Peace, and for some time M.L.A. Her mother's maiden name was Catherine Whitby Schreiner.

She was a relative of Senator T. L. Schreiner, the Rt. Hon. William Philip Schreiner, and Henrietta Stakesby Lewis. During the Boer War (1899-1902), Stuart was sent as a representative of the GLW to Great Britain, where, with the assistance of Mrs. Macintosh, of Port Elizabeth, she raised a fund for the care of soldiers’ graves in South Africa.

Stuart's earnest appeals for the creation of a closer bond between Great Britain and her colonial possessions culminated in the formation of the Victoria League.

Stuart's hobbies including gardening, poultry, outdoor exercise, and sports. She cycled from Mossel Bay to Port Elizabeth. Cape Town, Cape Province.